[Other Shore] was unharmed.
Impossible!
How could a Dao Lord be so easily fooled? Though startled for a moment, Sword Lord quickly understood Chu Sheng's condition. "It hasn't been completely destroyed."
"You can still preserve it with fragments?"
As the words fell, deep chill surfaced in Sword Lord's eyes beneath the Sword Light. "I see. No wonder you had always been so fearless."
At the same time, with Dao Tianqi's Wisdom Light, Lu Yang also understood the specifics. "[Other Shore] has collapsed, but it only shattered—it was not reduced to ashes. Fragments remain, and those fragments are still suspended over the Ancestral Dragon's Sea of Consciousness. They can raise a Dao Lord's status."
The increase was not great.
At the very least, it could no longer elevate someone to the Dao Lord level as before. Yet raising them half a step above Golden Core perfection, to the status Si Sui had possessed in those days, was still possible.
"After all, the Ancestral Dragon is too powerful."
Thoughts churned in Lu Yang's eyes as Wisdom Light erupted.
"Even in the era before [Other Shore] was born, its status could rival that of the Dao Lords upon [Other Shore]. That was its innate status."
"And since [Other Shore] was built atop its Sea of Consciousness, the fragments of [Other Shore] naturally stand above its status. That is the principle by which [Other Shore] raises status. The reason the increase is now far less than before is mainly because the Ancestral Dragon's Sea of Consciousness was destroyed by the fall—"
The next instant, Lu Yang was abruptly startled.
He understood why Chu Sheng could remain so calm in the face of [Other Shore]'s collapse, seemingly unconcerned that his painstaking plan for Spirit Transformation ascension had failed.
The reason was actually very simple.
"Dao